Tammy Berberi

Tammy Berberi, Assistant Professor of French at the University of Minnesota, Morris, teaches French language, literature, and culture courses, and disability studies. Berberi is co-editor of Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning (Yale, 2008). Other work has appeared in JLD, Journal of Literary Disabilities and RDS: Review of Disability Studies. Her research interests include using technology to enhance foreign language learning for all students, and disability in fin-de-siècle French literature and in travel memoirs. Since she served as the first student member of the Modern Language Association’s Committee Disability Issues in the Profession, Berberi has devoted considerable energy to advocating the inclusion of students with disabilities in all aspects of college life.

Elizabeth Emery

Elizabeth Emery (Ph.D., New York University) is an associate professor of French at Montclair State University and the author of Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-siècle French Culture (SUNY, 2001), co-author of Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-siècle France (Ashgate, 2003), and co-editor of Medieval Saints in Nineteenth-Century France (McFarland, 2004). Her essays about medievalism and nineteenth-century French literature have appeared in such publications as The Oxford Journal of the History of Collecting, The Journal of European Studies, Prose Studies, French Literature Studies, The French Review, and Les Cahiers Naturalistes, Excavatio, and Modern Language Studies. Her current book project traces the links between photojournalism, the cult of celebrity, and the birth of the “maison d’écrivain” at the end of the nineteenth century in France.

Elizabeth C. Hamilton

Elizabeth C. Hamilton is Associate Professor of German at Oberlin College, where she teaches German language, literature, and cinema courses. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University with a dissertation on discourses of disability in German literature. In addition to several articles that address pedagogical developments for teaching disabled students, Hamilton has also published studies of contemporary portrayals of disability in German fiction and film. She is co-editor of Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning (Yale, 2008), and is currently writing a book about disfigurement and the Enlightenment tradition, entitled Disability’s Past: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and the Deviant Body in German Literature.

Melissa Mitchell

Melissa Mitchell serves as the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange Outreach/Training Coordinator and has developed several trainings based on the Clearinghouse’s disability and exchange publications. Ms. Mitchell, who uses a wheelchair, can relate her trainings to her experiences studying and teaching abroad in France. Prior to this, she served on Washington State’s disability council, youth leadership projects, and disaster preparedness training for people with disabilities. She holds a B.A. in French and Communications from Central Washington University.

Ian M. Sutherland

Ian M. Sutherland earned his Ph. D. from Duke University in classics, specializing in archeology and Latin. He is now Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Culture at Gallaudet University. Sutherland has presented and published on Pompeian architecture and Disability Studies. He is co-editor of Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning (Yale, 2008). Currently he serves as a director for the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation.

TeleTraining Moderator

Michele Scheib is Project Specialist for the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange, which is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and administered by Mobility International USA. She has contributed to numerous publications on disability and exchange, including Preparing for an International Career: Pathways for People with Disabilities and A World Awaits You: A Journal of Success in International Exchange for People with Disabilities. Ms. Scheib holds an M.A. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota, and has participated in exchanges to Kenya and Thailand, and presented at conferences in Austria, Canada and Hungary.

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